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Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet

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Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet (c. 1647 – 22 December 1691) was an English politician from the Leveson-Gower family. Born William Gower, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet and Frances, daughter and coheir of John Leveson. He added the surname Leveson to his own in 1668, when he inherited the Trentham and Lilleshall estates of his maternal great-uncle, Sir Richard Leveson. Leveson-Gower married Lady Jane Granville (the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Bath) and they had five children:

Leveson-Gower inherited his childless nephew's baronetcy in 1689 and on his own death two years later, was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, John.

Two of Leveson-Gower's well-known direct modern-day descendants are broadcaster Claire Balding and comedian Miranda Hart.

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  1. ^ Burke's Peerage (1939 edition), s.v. Sutherland, Duke of.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme
1675–1685
With: Sir Caesar Colclough, Bt 1675–1679
Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt 1679–1685
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Salop
1681–1685
With: Richard Newport
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme
1689–1691
With: John Lawton 1689–1690
Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt 1690–1691
Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Baronet
(of Sittersham)
1689–1691
Succeeded by